Paybacks is hell

[PJ_Godzilla]

So, tonight, there was some guy in a 190 who kept making suicide runs on one of our bases.

At first, I didn't care. The base was pretty heavily covered. However, after shooting down a zeke, low on fuel and ammo, while making my approach, the suicide 190 jockey made his appearance like clockwork. I foolishly failed, with flaps and gear down, to avoid his deck-alt HO merge, and promptly found myself missing a wing.

Thus, when he later made an appearance, I followed him on his strafing run; made myself his shadow. I was subsequently quite surprised to see him fly through one of our base hangars.

A friendly notified me on the radio, " he just flew through the hangar... We should let him live."

I thought to myself, from about 400 yards off his 6, "you know, he's right. Maybe that's what this game should be all about. This brave 190 pilot has shown some real panache with his flying style. Maybe we should just let him fly away with impunity. After all, it's that kind of style that makes this game worthwhile."

Then I rapidly dismissed the thought and popped a twenty right up his tailpipe.

I got on the radio: " Sorry, but I just killed him. Granted, though, flying through the hangar was a gutsy move, but there was a score to settle."

I'm flying the XVI this tour. Honor's got nothing to do with that ride. If it had longer belts, it'd be even more unfair than it is already.

As for the 190 jock, here's to you...

[guncrasher]

I was there when it happened.  I would have killed him too.  it was a long flight for him to go back to base. 




semp

[Dragon Tamer]

So, tonight, there was some guy in a 190 who kept making suicide runs on one of our bases.

At first, I didn't care. The base was pretty heavily covered. However, after shooting down a zeke, low on fuel and ammo, while making my approach, the suicide 190 jockey made his appearance like clockwork. I foolishly failed, with flaps and gear down, to avoid his deck-alt HO merge, and promptly found myself missing a wing.

Thus, when he later made an appearance, I followed him on his strafing run; made myself his shadow. I was subsequently quite surprised to see him fly through one of our base hangars.

A friendly notified me on the radio, " he just flew through the hangar... We should let him live."

I thought to myself, from about 400 yards off his 6, "you know, he's right. Maybe that's what this game should be all about. This brave 190 pilot has shown some real panache with his flying style. Maybe we should just let him fly away with impunity. After all, it's that kind of style that makes this game worthwhile."

Then I rapidly dismissed the thought and popped a twenty right up his tailpipe.

I got on the radio: " Sorry, but I just killed him. Granted, though, flying through the hangar was a gutsy move, but there was a score to settle."

I'm flying the XVI this tour. Honor's got nothing to do with that ride. If it had longer belts, it'd be even more unfair than it is already.

As for the 190 jock, here's to you...

I was there when it happened.  I would have killed him too.  it was a long flight for him to go back to base. 




semp

So then you did him a favor. Then he could get back in that 190 even faster!

[PJ_Godzilla]

Indeed. I wrote this little story, then did some research. For some reason, the episode was ringing a bunch of the wrong kind of bells.

1. I fired on him from my shadow position and, while I'm pretty sure I saw some hits, I think he bailed... Why? Because I got a PM just after that apologizing for not dogfighting. I'm not sure if that was for the run and gun or for a bail... but, either way, his red icon disappeared almost immediately after I fired.
2. I looked up his name right here on the bbs. The most prominent search hit I found was a 7=page string of posts back from 2012. It seems the player had faced some accusations of using a shade account to rack up most of his kills in Tour 152. He had a few kills across a number of players/types, then some 80+% of his kills were all for one player in the B-25C.

For some reason, the whole thing didn't sit right.

Then, just to make things doubly weird, there was very soon after that what I would call a "lemming attack" on the base composed of Ponies, a 38, and a 47 - all of whom were promptly killed by either me  (2 more - and I only used about 100 20 shells) or others. All the names I saw were ones I'd never seen before.

Weird, just weird... Anymore, I don't expect this variety of baby seal in-game. I mean, the 38 driver just augered himself. The Pony jocks were trying to turnfight.

[Debrody]

lol, funny stuff

Would you PM me his name, please?

[Slate]

   If he flew through the hanger he must be a veteran of AHXRL! 

   I would get hung up on a hanger. 

[danny76]

I flew through a hangar once, being tailed by a baying pack of reds. My Tiff made it through but two of the five followers tried to come with me and died in a 'tie fighter off the tunnel wall' stylee.

I believe I was killed about 2 nanoseconds later, almost certainly incapacitated through laughter 

[Max]

A couple weeks back there were 4-5 of us Bishits mixing it up with Nits over their base. Mind you there was no attempt at a base take...this was about air to air knife fighting.

TonyJoey and I were watching this Yak3 doing circle 8's at tree top level over his field for at least 15 minutes...most of his acks were up. We decided to deack the base and take a shot at the Yak dweeb. The deal was, we had to fly through a FH on each pass. Wish I had a film...almost pee'd my pants from laughter.

[mthrockmor]

Last week, in sheer boredom, as some other sticks were vulching I took a Bf-109G-14 through a hangar. Caught my propeller on a tree coming out the other side and crash landed and captured. Such is life....

[SFRT - Frenchy]

I fly thru hangers at every opportunity I get as a taunting move, but also it shows the character of the other guys. I get more respect from the pursuing K4/La7/Yak3/Ki84/Spit16 guy chasing me when he also makes a hanger pass. Shows playfullness and accepting inproptu challenges rather than taking off in a late war wonder to pad his ego.

[LCADolby]

A couple weeks back there were 4-5 of us Bishits mixing it up with Nits over their base. Mind you there was no attempt at a base take...this was about air to air knife fighting.

TonyJoey and I were watching this Yak3 doing circle 8's at tree top level over his field for at least 15 minutes...most of his acks were up. We decided to deack the base and take a shot at the Yak dweeb. The deal was, we had to fly through a FH on each pass. Wish I had a film...almost pee'd my pants from laughter.

Raise a mug to that, that's awesome

[Golden Dragon]

A couple weeks back there were 4-5 of us Bishits mixing it up with Nits over their base. Mind you there was no attempt at a base take...this was about air to air knife fighting.

TonyJoey and I were watching this Yak3 doing circle 8's at tree top level over his field for at least 15 minutes...most of his acks were up. We decided to deack the base and take a shot at the Yak dweeb. The deal was, we had to fly through a FH on each pass. Wish I had a film...almost pee'd my pants from laughter.

Really?  Air to air knife fighting, huh?  So you were letting the Nits get up to co-alt and then accelerating before picking err knife fighting.  Right?  And he's a dweeb for staying close to ack while you five are "knife fighting?"  Mmmm, kay.  Laugh out loud.  Good story about flying through the hangars though.

[Getback]

I only regret shooting down one pilot and that was after he survived a 2 vs 1 and turned home because of low gas. I hunted him down and then he just flew straight. Turned out he had low fuel. I knew something wasn't right but I wasn't sure if I hadn't got his pilot. If I had to do it again I would have pulled off.

BTW, Ponies turn fairly well. I'm surprised in fact. Been flying one the last couple of days.

Speaking of augering, I was defending a vbase with a werb the other day and both planes augered. 2 kills for me. LOL, the p38 came scorching in and I knew that was not going to end well. But then a N1k1 came in and surprisingly he augered on his second pass.

On my side of the fense I augered an f6, how the heck do you do that!

[danny76]

On my side of the fense I augered an f6, how the heck do you do that!

I can do that in anything. Usually it's easy when you combine a fast moving hunk of steel with rapid deceleration at ground level 

[Latrobe]

I like to land on enemy bases and park in front of their tower.